This! Except sub "Californian" for "West Texan".
Making it worse is that I'm a mimic who loves different accents, and I lived in South Carolina for almost 4 years. So that shows up, too. When I was taking Spanish (8th through 11th grade) and then Japanese (12th grade and freshman year of college) I would start speaking those languages at parties.
Funny story, when I studied abroad in France sometimes I was mistaken for being British and I'm a native Californian!
It's the vowels. When I lived in SC I could sort of sense the evolution of British/colonial/American/American moving south. And since a CA accent has those "lazy" vowels it can be similar sometimes.
I guess "overyander" and "as the crow flies" are not things they really get the first time.
I'd get those. But then my absolute favorite phrase EVER is "might could". "I might could go to the movies on Friday." And while "y'all" is terrific and better than "you guys", I love the Western PA "you'uns" ("you ones") as well.
Haha! It's really the twang that gets added to vowels. So many 'a's get changed to 'ayu's. Disneyland becomes Disneylayund.
I had a friend who was in his 40s when he was in grad school with me in SC. He was from TX but had moved to Seattle as a young adult and was totally assimilated including accent and he liked it. He had a kid while in SC. The kid went to daycare and preschool. My friend said he knew graduation could not come quicker when his son, born to two Seattleites, was learning his numbers and he said "one, two, three, fourour" (with the drawl on the 4 if it didn't come through with how I spelled it). HIS feelings, not mine; I love accents.
As the one who both loves and hates "Disneyland People" I get where you're coming from to a degree
Oh sure. I think we all get it. Disneyland would be GREAT if WE were the only ones there. I wish I were a Kardashian or Mariah Carey or Miley Cyrus who *could* rent out the park if I chose to. Alas, we are surrounded.
This conversation twist is way better than "hey all you locals and AP holders who helped me, I really disliked the locals and AP holders in the parks".
I'm here at Universal Orlando right now (taking a sleep-in day and I"m waiting for lazy kidlet to get moving) and while there are plenty of pokemon Go people nearly running into me, there are ALSO plenty of people talking to other people (that are there with them, not on a phone call or text) who are nearly running into me. And I'm sure I've accidentally done it to others. Just part of being in public.